Poison the target's hat

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ID: 259434

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From: Four of Lures: The Reel

The Page can hook the hat from his head, coat the headband with contact toxin, and return it to street level in a blink.

Game Instructions: This will give you progress. If you have Poisonous Preparations, this will consume a little of it to give you extra progress.

Success

Catch and release

[…] The Page casts his hooked line […] It catches on the target's hat-brim […] A quick and poisonous swabbing of the headband, then hat and hook sail once more to street level […] as the target looks about the street in search of his itinerant garment.

Description summary:
The text changes if a Poisonous Preparation is consumed.

Condition	Additional Description
Poisonous Preparation	The coup-de-grace occurs later, when a gust of wind from a nearby carriage almost blows the hat off […] the target clutching the brim and forcing it – and its stowaway toxins – down upon his forehead. An expensive bit of preparation […]

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•  You've gained 1 x Hearts' Game: Exploits
•  Elusiveness of your Target is increasing… (+3 CP) (applied with probability based on Hearts' Game: Turns this Round) ^{What does this mean?}
•  Poison Tolerance of Your Target is increasing… (+2 CP) (applied with probability based on Hearts' Game: Turns this Round) ^{What does this mean?}
•  Hearts' Game: Counterplay is increasing… (+1-3 CP)
•  You've gained 1 x Hearts' Game: Turns this Round (hidden)

Without Poisonous Preparation:

•  Poisoner's Progress is increasing… (+(3 - 1 with The Embalmer's Mark - Tolerance) CP, minimum 1)

With Poisonous Preparation:

•  Poisoner's Progress is increasing… (+(7 - 1 with The Embalmer's Mark - Tolerance) CP, minimum 1)
•  You've lost 1 x Poisonous Preparation